Can Field Point I/O Communicate with Allen-Bradley PLC's?

[jambrose]

I have an application where I want to connect 5 existing Field Point I/O banks to an
Allen-Bradley 1756-ENBT ethernet communication module so that an Allen-Bradley Control
Logix PLC can monitor/control the Field Point I/O points.

Is this possible? The Allen-Bradley vendor says that the 1756-ENBT can communicate with
3rd party Ethernet I/O modules if they use Ethernet/IP protocol.

[sergesl]

Hello,

The Allen Bradley may be able to read from TCP/IP devices, but the interface still has to be implemented and I am not aware of any.
If you can use the Allen Bradley to ready from OPC servers, then you should be able to read from FieldPoint modules. All you will need to do is publish those channels you need to read.
Hope it helps..

SergesL

[Charlie Silver]

jambrose,

I have a silimar application to yours, requiring ethernet communications between fieldpoint and an Allen-Bradley PLC.  Can you tell what solution you ended up with?  Thanks,

Charlie

[jambrose]

Charlie,

Mine was a new installation so I needed something. I ended up bailing out on the Allen-Bradley idea. At the time, Allen-Bradley's Ethernet I/O wasn't developed enough or even available.

So Field Point was one of the solutions I could find for Ethernet I/O. I used Wonderware HMI software and it's OPC Link I/O driver to talk with the OPC enabled Field Point I/O. This would not work with Allen-Bradley and still won't as far as I know. I never went back to try it, but typically A-B only communicates with "partner" integrators.

The Wonderware scripting language took the place of the PLC and its logic program. Not the best solution, but it worked.

Jim